President Trump: The great people of our country demand proper border security

FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, file photo seen from a window outside the Oval Office, President Donald Trump gives a prime-time address about border security at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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UPDATED 6:49 AM PT — Monday, January 14, 2018

President Trump is maintaining his hardline stance on the necessity for a southern border wall, and is highlighting the dangers posed by illegal immigration.

In a pair of tweets Sunday, the president referred to statistics that ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of assaults, sex crimes and violent killings.

The Trump portrait of an unsustainable Border Crisis is dead on. “In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with Criminal Records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes & 4000 violent killings.” America’s Southern….

The president citied Patrick Buchanan, a former assistant to the president for communications under several prior administrations, when saying the U.S.’s southern border will eventually be militarized and defended.

….Border is eventually going to be militarized and defended or the United States, as we have known it, is going to cease to exist…And Americans will not go gentle into that good night. Patrick Buchanan. The great people of our Country demand proper Border Security NOW!